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WHAT’S FRESH AT SAGE’S ACRE

WHAT’S FRESH AT SAGE’S ACRE

PHOTO GALLERY

There’s always some strange, interesting, beautiful or fun going on here at the Acre, so I carry a camera. Just in case.

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FOOD & RECIPES

FOOD & RECIPES

Tapas Time!

Got a few extra veggies but don't know what to do? Make pinchos de encurtidos (a type of tapas). Easy & delicious, they're great with cheese and charcuterie.

AROUND THE ACRE

Live Video Stream

Visit the ChickenCam » (Tip: There are actually more ducks than chickens)

DIY Wildlife Camera

Make a live backyard or wildlife camera just like Chickencam for less than $50. It’s easy!

Weathercam

shows what a Cleveland Sage looks like

Live camera shot facing west toward the Pacific Ocean, which is about 5 miles away.

Camera updates every 2 minutes.

Live Camera

Wunderground

Realtime Weather

Sage's Acre
11:13 pm, March 24, 2023
48°F
clear sky
Wind: 3 mph
Pressure: 1021 mb
Visibility: 10 km
Sunrise: 5:46 am
Sunset: 6:03 pm

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This year's seemingly unstoppable atmospheric river hammered a lot of plants here at the Acre. But it's also given some of the natives and impressive boost. 

One of the natives currently growing like gangbusters is Salvia spathacea, or hummingbird sage, a low growing, large-leafed sage with bright pink flowers and a pleasant scent that does well under the native oaks.

It used to be fairly common in Southern California before developers bulldozed everything and replaced it with tract houses and invasive non-natives. I'm on a one-man mission to help this spectacular little California native re-colonize at least some of the habitat that's been lost.

#californiagarden #californianative #hummingbirdsage #nativesage #nativesalvia #sandiegogarden #zone9

https://sagesacre.com/2023/03/23/salvia-spathacea-hummingbird-sage/
If there' ever a Procrastination Category in a gardening competition, I will win because I am a master at putting things off until the very last.

For example, last fall I promised the wife the garden would be cleared and ready for planting by the first day of spring. And it was.... yesterday, 4 minutes before spring began.

#winning #garden2023 #hugelsgarten #inbedcompost #lasagnagarden #organicgarden #lazygardener #procrastinatorsgarden #sandiegogarden #springgarden #vegetablegarden #veggiegarden2023 #zone9garden
The hills finally sucked up enough rain that it got into the miles of ground squirrel tunnels upslope turning our oak valley into a muddy spring creek. Walking the bank of the creek this morning, I spotted two piercing blue eyes staring up at me from the water. 

#atmosphericriver #californiawinter #groundsquirrel #groundsquirrelcontrol #rain #sandiegogarden #springcreek #zone9

https://sagesacre.com/2023/03/15/an-atmospheric-river-makes-a-real-one/
Me yesterday: "WooHoo! It's March in San Diego! Time to get the garden started!"
Nature yesterday. "Hold my beer."

#notspringyet #zone9 #sandiego
My neighbor's (now-retired) gardener, Alfons, and I used to trade plants. A few years ago he gave me a little plant that he said was a maguey (agave) that grew in the desert around his house in Chihuahua. I had hoped it was like a magic Mezcal plant, but it wasn't an agave at all, but a really cool succulent called Echeveria agavoides.

#agave #Crassulaceae #droughtfriendly #Echeveriaagavoides #mexiconative #sandiegogarden #succulent #succulents #waterwise #zone9garden #fieryred

https://sagesacre.com/2023/02/25/echeveria-agavoides-in-bloom/
It only took 109 million years, but we finally got a blizzard warning in San Diego.
#sunnysandiego #winterstorm #whatissnow  #CAwx
Just a close up photo of the Kalanchoe daigremontiana — also known as Mother of Thousands, Alligator Plant, or Mexican Hat Plant — in our sun room getting ready to drop lots of new baby plants.

To me the babies look like little oysters, not sombreros, so I don't know where the "Mexican Hat" moniker comes from. No matter. It still looks cool.

#alligatorplant #madagascar #mexicanhatplant #motherofthousands #sandiegogarden #succulent #succulentgarden #zone9

https://sagesacre.com/2023/02/18/kalanchoe-daigremontiana/
Roses? Meh. Chocolates? How trite.

My Valentine is getting a case of my freshly bottled fermented hot sauce with garlic -- aged for over 6 months on seasoned oak. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ #valentine #spicy! 

#batch22 #cayennepepper #chilisauce #chillisauce #fermentedfood #fermentedhotsauce #hotpeppersauce #hotpeppers #mygarden #sandiegogarden #zone9garden

https://sagesacre.com/2023/02/14/batch-22-hot-sauce-entry-7-bottling-part-1/
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